11.   Preventive diplomacy by the West can only work, though, if the people of Burundi are prepared to step back from the abyss.

12.   Preventive diplomacy, conducted early in a dispute, can ease tensions and resolve problems before they erupt in war.

13.   The Clinton administration claims preventive diplomacy and conflict prevention as pillars of its foreign policy.

14.   The fearful prospect of more upheavals calls out for energetic preventive diplomacy.

15.   The philosophy of human security should be made the purpose of preventive diplomacy because it leads to stronger national security.

16.   The presence of the U.S. soldiers represented an attempt at preventive diplomacy.

17.   The tasks of preventive diplomacy and conflict prevention are neither self-evident nor value-neutral, as some of their proponents seem to believe.

18.   This is an occasion for vigorous preventive diplomacy.

19.   To be successful, preventive diplomacy requires prescience, prescription and mobilization.

20.   Finally, Asean hopes to utilise the Asean Regional Forum as a forum for confidence building and preventive diplomacy and for promoting resolutions to conflicts.